Life Quote by Min Jin Lee

I was so sure I wanted to be a novelist. I would spend hours and hours every day writing. Little stories about nothing in…

— Samantha Shannon

A reason I became a writer was to escape the hopelessness and despair of the real world and enter the world of hope I…

— Ray Bradbury

It seemed perfectly possible that, in spite of my certainty of my own genius, I might die of some illness, or perhaps even in…

— Colin Wilson

All through my writing life, I've had this impulse to write autobiographical works.

— Paul Auster

My whole life, I've wanted to be a novelist.

— Jane Fallon

I decided if I couldn't be a writer, my life would be miserable. I had this imaginary room of references to all the books…

— Per Petterson

My younger sister Debby had died of cancer, which started me writing - the sense of life being short. Cancer focuses your mind.

— Meg Rosoff

I think if I had done anything else I would like to have been a doctor. This is the sort of polar opposition to…

— Sylvia Plath

I think I became a writer because of my love of stories and an inability to stop asking, 'What if?'

— Caroline Leavitt

I had wanted to be a novelist for so long, but I didn't have a story. That story came from the death of my…

— Robert Crais

I was sick all the time, one exotic illness after another, which lasted throughout my twenties. My worst decade. But from the day the…

— Judy Blume

I hoped to be able to write a novel which would enable me to live on it while I wrote the next.

— Harper Lee